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A Marriage of True Minds: Leonard and Elizabeth Jolley
by John Barnes

One of the most unsettling experiences in old age is the discovery, after the death of friends whom you thought that you knew well, that you had been unaware of what had been most central to their lives. We live in an age of revelation, when it is easier than it has ever been before to dig up the past; and the public’s ‘right to know’ is freely invoked to justify intrusions into the private lives of the living. The dead, especially celebrities, have always been fair game.

58.2

The theme of 58.2 is the result of a panel discussion at the Perth Writer’s Festival in which a group including Dennis Haskell and Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery director, Dr Sally Quin, discussed the idea of beauty. Sally Quin contributes a conversation she conducted with three contemporary artists on the topic, including Pilar Mata Dupont, whose video installation is used as a basis for the cover design.

Guest edited by former editor Professor Dennis Haskell.

Contents:

Beauty

Dennis Haskell

The Challenge of Beauty

Sally Quin

Some Thoughts on Beauty and Bliss

Carmel Macdonald-Grahame

On Behalf of Nature Poetry

Carmel Macdonald-Grahame

Clutching at Petals

Carmel Macdonald-Grahame

Oedo Chapel, Korea—

Cathryne Sanders

The Beauty of the Australian House

Laurie Steed

Wallpaper

Ali Alizadeh

The Beauty of the Dead Child

Simon Jackson

Burning Barbie

Jake Roseman

Eight Years and Four Months

Vivienne Glance

On drawing a stranger, unobserved

Josephine Clarke

Karri Hazel

Susan Lever

Strange and Beautiful

Deborah Hunn

Endless Winter

Julie Watts

The Queue

Miriam Wei Wei Lo

If I Want to Keep Beauty

Dennis Haskell

Make It New?

Reminiscence

John Barnes

A Marriage of True Minds

Poems

Jennifer Compton

John Kinsella

George Gott

Anna Ryan-Punch

Miro Sandev

Michael Farrell

Simon Perchik

Rachael Petridis

Rebecca Law

Duncan Richardson

Jeff Guess

Andy Kissane

Mags Webster

Dick Alderson

Bev Braune

Mark O’Flynn

Matthew Rodgers

An Qi (trans. Ouyang Yu)

Geoff Page

William Byrne

Graeme Hetherington

Karen Throssell

Ted Mc Carthy

Rose Lucas

Carolyn Abbs

Sami Rafiq

Deborah WestburyStories

Lachlan Prior

Let’s Dance

Fikret Pajalic

Dinosaur

Gabriel Don

Somewhere Else

M. T. O’Byrne

The Day Before Christmas Island

Shokoofeh Azar

The woman who went to stand there

Kate Elkington

A Boxful of Prophets

Mark O’Flynn

Turning the Other Cheek

Zdravka Evtimova

Happiness is a Simple Thing

Henry Ward

The Orator

Graham Kershaw

Stone Cold English

Essays

Rohan Wilson

Anxiety of Reference in That Deadman Dance

John Burbidge

Gerald Glaskin Revisited

Nicholas Walton-Healey

Where Blood Comes From

Jane Vaughan

Form, Artifice and Contemporary Australian Poetics: John Tranter’s ‘TheAnaglyph’